When her parents’ marriage crumbles and Pierce and her mother move to an island off the coast of Florida, Isla Huesos, Pierce is ready to make a fresh start at a new school and to leave her past behind. She has been to the Underworld and met its keeper – a strange young man named John, who won’t seem to leave Pierce alone. Unable to focus in class, Pierce’s parents, teachers, and doctors say that she’s just suffering the lasting effects of a subdural hematoma and write off what she “saw” in her dead state as a lucid dream – but Pierce knows that what happened to her in death was no dream.

Though alive, two years after the experience, Pierce is a changed girl. By all rights, Pierce died and should still be dead…but she came back. When she was fifteen, Pierce had an accident, slipping, hitting her head, and falling into a near-freezing temperature pool. I don’t think there would have been a better initiation title, honestly – Greek mythology, a darkly imagined retelling, all set on a tropical island that is something akin to a Hellmouth? Yeah, I was sooo in.Īt least, that’s what Pierce Oliviera has come to accept. SO, when I received a copy of Abandon, I knew it was finally time to delve into the works of the lovely Ms. Why did I read this book: Confession time! I have never read a Meg Cabot book before. How did I get this book: ARC from the Publisher Stand alone or series: Book 1 in the Abandon/Myth of Persephone Trilogy But she can’t stay away from him, either, especially since he’s always there when she least expects it, but exactly when she needs him most.īut if she lets herself fall any further, she might find herself back in the place she fears the most.Īnd when Pierce discovers the shocking truth, that’s exactly where John sweeps her:

What does John want from her? Pierce thinks she knows… just like she knows he’s no guardian angel, and his dark world isn’t exactly heaven. Though she thought she escaped him-starting a new school in a whole new place-it turns out she was wrong. That’s how she met John Hayden, the mysterious stranger who’s made returning to normal life-or at least life as Pierce knew it before the accident-next to impossible. Seventeen-year-old Pierce knows what happens to us when we die. Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary/Urban Fantasy, Retellings, Paranormal

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